Thats not quite true, and please make sure you get your history right on the matter as such comments ALWAYS cause trouble. So the addition of infrastructure and social services (schools, police, museums etc..) is theft how? Not to mention that the UK never made any profit from India.

Still that was totally another time and place in history. Are you suggesting that the Roma tried to make NI a better place by building those same things, and that the NI kicked off being a kind people trapped in past accomplishments and not having the ingenuity to progress?

How amusing that Sincere Man (an American!) seems more civilised than the people who disapprove of his opinion. As usual the case against migrants is that they don't pull their weight, in other words they behave like the idle rich. Why not have a go at them instead of a powerless minority? Hmmm, I wonder?

@ londiner: To call the residents "ignorant, ill-informed and prone to knee-jerk reactions" with no understanding of the hows and whys from the people themselves, put yourself into that same category.

The link while off topic, is reason enough to hold back on allowing open doors. It was not that long ago that the rights, both in the work place and otherwise, were brought with viscous repercussions from the powers that were. How many British "refuges" fled the country during the "flying pickets" and Police brutality of the 1980s just to use a fairly recent example.

With regards to NI: Sectarianism, like racism, is the belief that one or more categories of people is/are unequal and undeserving of dignity, respect and opportunity.

Playing a role "in working class areas in NI where intolerance is rife" are, according to several recent articles in the national papers, lots of factors which can basically be summed up as forms of deprivation (financial hardship, poor scholastic performance, inadequate housing, unemployment, drinking and drugging, admiration for ex-prisoners, "hard men", money flashed around by drug barons and other criminals etc, desire to find status, respect from others and role in community). And inevitably frustration kicks in. (NB These factors are not all exclusive to working class areas but have greater impact there).
Add also unthinking, uncritical acceptance of certain political lines (perhaps due to low academic achievement which did not provide analytical thinking skills) and there you have a volatile mixture of nasty ideas and feelings dating back generations which explode in sectarian murders as well as racial harassment and intimidation. So personally speaking, I think these people are ignorant, ill-informed and prone to knee-jerk reactions.

The mould might be broken by government campaigns (mass media, posters, soaps like Eastenders, meetings in schools, workplaces, sports and professional associations, community halls etc) to show people how to exit this dangerous mindset, interest them in other things and teach them to live and let live. However, as there seems to be little or no interest in such an approach, one is left to ask who benefits when people are intolerant in NI? Who would lose what if sectarian divisions and intolerance were to change?

A propos of the pros and cons of the EU position on immigration, this paper is worth looking at

@LiveInHope
To be frank, everyone has the incline to be racist. Its all depends if we want to or not. Either way, we are still back to basics.
PS: Your point is not clear on the EXPORT part? Are you saying other migrants to Australia(especially asians) are being a cumbersome to your nation.

In Aussie the term they use for GB is 'Perfidious Albion'
That then bans all the Brits. After all India , when the British came to it , was the second wealthiest Country in the world , and when they left was the 4 poorest in the world (OECD figures)

Now THAT IS stealing and lying and cheating that would shame the Romas.

DON'T Get me wrong , Us Indo-Aussies or Indo-British still love-hate you English ( And I presume you are English )

I wasn't going to come back on this Forum . But i had to to answer your question.

Firstly - Yes you are right , We all have that racist devil inside us , but higher morality demands that we continuously fight that devil.

Secondly - This is a British forum and in Britain aisans mean South Asians.
In Australia Asians mean ...East Asians .
Having cleared that definition - I was talking about export purely in terms of trade - ThE FORIGN Students in Australia are our third largest Foreign exchange earner . They are an Export Industry that needs better protection , since the Crime (mainly from the Pacific islanders and The lebanese youth) is affecting these people , and Australia mau end up losing our third largest export earner.

WILL SOMEONE FROM THE RIGHT WING OF POLITICS please answer my questions...!

Shpuld we have a Pogrom against the Anglo-Druggies Australians(similiar people to the Romas) or the LEbanese ( petty Crime , and Burkhas)
or the Pacific islanders ( petty crime and drunkneness).
THe question should extend to the Aborigines ( Petty-crime , drug addiction ,incest , child molestation etc etc )

AS FAR AS the E.U. goes - a free movement of people is an integral part of the large single market... as is the free movement of capital. If capital is dereulated then labour has to be so as as well.

No all i am suggesting is that At some point in time the English could easily be described as theives ( although i think all empires behavd the same way.
The truth NEVER causes trouble.
The fact was despite there being enterprising Indians , England introduced laws in india to make sure it never Industrialised.
Check the annals of the Manchester textile Industry association.

England introduced taxes for the Internal transport of Indian manufactured goods - But not British manufactured goods , and England introduced laws to ban the extracting of salt from the sea ( gandhi's salt march)

England made it very difficult for Indian entrepreneurs to obtain finance , even from their own sources.
No the OECD figures speak for themselves.

The Infrastructure was introduced to make it easir to rule India , nothing else.Whatever England did in India was purely for Selfish reasons.. They only did what they had to and no more.

Perhaps you should educate yourself..

The British even used the Indian army for solely Imperial purposes ( The rise and fall of the British Empire )..read up on the Iraq campaign , the First world war ( The number of indian soldier dying then is never talked about) and the later China campaigns.(Shangai and the Boxer rebellion)
In fact during the low tech wars , the Indian army was often the mainstay in many pafrts of the empire... and all at India's expense
Why do you think England fought so hard to keep India ?

However , back to the subject at hand , I doubt that either one of us can win the argument about the Roma.
Eventually only History will tell.